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IT will interest our readers to hear that the Berlin Academy of Sciences has set aside a certain sum of money, which will enable it to call to Berlin eminent men of science, who will have no teaching duties to perform. Prof. Kirchhoff has finally decided to accept the directorship of the Observatory for Solar Physics, now being erected at Potsdam, and will proceed to Berlin to commence his duties in connection with its establishment, in the spring.

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Notes . Nature 11, 114–116 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011114b0

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